Naveen Madapana
Machine Learning Research Engineer at Apple
Milpitas, California, United States
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Top SchoolNaveen Madapana is a Machine Learning Research Engineer with nine years of experience bridging academic rigor and product-focused ML at companies like Apple and Amazon Lab126. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Purdue, where he led research on real-time gesture recognition, transfer learning between robots, and few-shot learning—work that directly informs assistive and AR/VR interaction systems. His background includes internships and research stints at Facebook Reality Labs, KAIST, and IIT Guwahati, giving him deep expertise in gesture and visuomotor systems for both humanoid robots and immersive interfaces. Based in the Bay Area, Naveen combines strong experimental ML research with production-minded deployment experience, uniquely positioning him to translate zero-shot and few-shot methods into real-world products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering (minor in CS), 9.12, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering (minor in CS), 9.12 at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Industrial Engineering, 3.92, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Industrial Engineering, 3.92 at Purdue UniversityUntil 10th grade, Basic courses, Until 10th grade, Basic courses at BHPV Senior Secondary School , Vizag, AP.
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (14)
mocap9
motion-capture8
kinect8
speech7
vocabulary7
api6
python5
audio-processing5
speech-recognition5
machine-learning4
speech-to-text4
windows4
ctc4
kaldi3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nmadapan/AHRQ_Gesture_Recognition
Jan 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
nmadapan/nmadapan.github.io
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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